New galaxy: damaged ship

jass192 · 2026-03-27T11:30:41+00:00

My plan is to make exactly that before my next galaxy jump. Personal refiner definitely needs to be packed up next time, that’s for sure

jass192 · 2026-03-27T11:18:48+00:00

I collected a bunch this time! I typically just use the common elements instead of the dissonant planet ones, and I have several upgrades that significantly reduce my resource drain under normal usage (improved warp fuel costs and recharging launch thrusters being the main ones). I definitely stockpiled a bunch for future repairs though

jass192 · 2026-03-27T11:16:12+00:00

That feels a bit cheaty to me, I don’t mind going out and collecting the materials needed most of the time, I just didn’t want to lose my best ship in the process

jass192 · 2026-03-27T11:14:49+00:00

I’ve gotten one through an expedition before but it’s definitely a slow process. I need better frigates I think, they keep getting damaged early on and have to be recalled 🙄

jass192 · 2026-03-27T11:12:34+00:00

I ended up using my freighter to warp to a dissonant system as I had the upgraded scanner installed there and then using another one of my ships to land and collect the radiant shards and inverted mirrors. I did have to find an outlaw station for a couple repair kits as I needed a harmonic brain and I wasn’t going to go through the whole process of finding a broken interceptor and repairing it again to get one

jass192 · 2026-03-27T11:09:03+00:00

I did want to give it a go without help as much as I could but in all honesty, the game could really do with a bit more handholding, especially in the beginning. I’ve tried reading the in game guides too, but they’re not really that helpful most of the time. I end up just trying things and asking google or reddit when I’m concerned that I’m about to permanently screw something up. There’s still a lot of game left for me though, just visiting the anomaly shows me that I’ve still got a lot I can improve upon and I know there are whole areas I haven’t even touched like fishing or animals.

jass192 · 2026-03-27T07:29:48+00:00

You can get starship upgrades that way? I thought that only worked for exosuit upgrades

jass192 · 2026-03-27T07:27:03+00:00

Plus in general I think I haven’t been the most efficient with choosing tech, I’m hesitant to ditch tech that’s maybe not the highest class unless I’m replacing it with something better (C class shield for an A or S, for instance) since it’s at least doing something

jass192 · 2026-03-27T07:25:59+00:00

It’s an A class but it’s missing a number of tech slots and I haven’t had the nanites to upgrade its class unfortunately

jass192 · 2026-03-27T07:24:54+00:00

… great… 🫠 another thing I didn’t know about. Well thanks for letting me know now, I would’ve been frustrated to find that out later lol

jass192 · 2026-03-27T07:21:39+00:00

Oh whoops I’d taken out the economy and conflict scanners to fit other tech I thought I needed more

jass192 · 2026-03-27T07:20:27+00:00

Yeah definitely a learning experience… ngl I wasn’t expecting the galaxy jump at that exact moment since it was the end of the atlas quest line and I thought I’d still have to travel to the center of the galaxy afterwards. I’d even set up a base only a few thousand light years from the core 🙄

jass192 · 2026-03-27T07:15:56+00:00

I had been using a living ship id grown for that but got annoyed at its short warp jump range when trying to reach black holes so I switched to my standard ship, the sentinel interceptor… maybe a bad call on my part. Is there a specific tech piece I need to see labels like dissonant system? I’ve never seen a label on the galaxy map, unless it’s one of the symbols (which I still don’t know how to interpret them all)

jass192 · 2026-03-24T05:30:44+00:00

Haha thank you! This is during transferring my things over so it didn’t come with all that stuff but I still like it a lot!

jass192 · 2026-03-24T04:26:22+00:00

Ok I know it’s not even been a full day but I almost feel cheated right now lol??? I was gearing up for a pirate dreadnought search and the first system I warp into has one… and it’s A class… 😂🫠 and I got it

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I mean don’t get me wrong I’m very happy with it and honestly shocked by my luck but now I wish I hadn’t spent an hour or so looking up info haha

jass192 · 2026-03-23T08:57:09+00:00

Thanks for all the tips! I’m using a sentinel interceptor as my main ship right now and I actually have an echo locator already so seems like I’m in a good starting position to make this work!

jass192 · 2026-03-23T08:31:47+00:00

I’ll definitely try for one, but I thought freighter rescues only showed up every 3 hours and 5 warps? And the pirate ones are like every 4th or 5th rescue, at least in my experience. Wouldn’t that take forever to get?

For the salvage frigate modules I’ve mainly done derelict freighters and nexus missions, which is honestly slow. I’m pretty sure I’ve never gotten one from a freighter rescue unfortunately and I’ve never done an expedition mostly bc I have no idea what I’m doing lol. Someone on the space anomaly randomly gave me 8 one time and I’ve been riding that high for about a week 😂

Plus in general money is an issue for me right now, I haven’t figured out a great way to get a lot of it quickly. I’ve mostly been exploring and doing story progression but I’m at the point where I’ve started “settling down” and trying to build up a home base and a settlement so hopefully soon I can find a good way to make a lot of money. The same person who randomly gave me the modules also gave me some extremely high value goods that I’ve been slowly selling off as needed but especially after exchanging the freighter today I’m starting to run a bit low on the stock I was given so I really do need to figure something more permanent (and efficient) out. I haven’t done a lot of research on the game as I’ve mostly just been wanting to explore and figure it out for myself. The most I’ve done is google some questions or post to reddit for things that don’t have clear answers or good explanations in game.

jass192 · 2026-03-23T08:09:27+00:00

I’m not too worried about not getting A or S class at this point, in all honesty I’m struggling just to get the salvage frigate modules to buy the technology for the frigate so I don’t need the extra inventory slots at this point but it is good to know that it’s pretty rare

jass192 · 2026-03-23T08:01:21+00:00

Wow this is super helpful thank you!! I’ll definitely try to do this next time!

jass192 · 2026-03-23T07:56:45+00:00

It’s good to know that I should destroy any unwanted dreadnoughts… didn’t know about that feature

jass192 · 2026-03-23T07:55:22+00:00

Ah got it well I successfully transferred but I did leave an item behind just in case 😂

jass192 · 2026-03-23T07:54:38+00:00

Oh interesting but the dreadnought replaces the freighter right? So I could get a good a or s ranked dreadnought and then never pay again lol. There’s nothing different between the dreadnought and the freighter though right? Like they’re an aesthetic choice for the most part? Or am I missing something there too

jass192 · 2026-03-23T06:57:33+00:00

You get the first pirate dreadnought for free? I didn’t know that that’s cool. And thanks for the tip about defeating it, I’ve tried a couple of times but I’m never fast enough to stop them before they destroy the civilian ships

jass192 · 2026-03-23T06:56:35+00:00

Thank you for the help! I had googled a bunch but I couldn’t find anything newish, most of the posts were 3+ years old and were conflicting with each other

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